RfC: Plans to graduate the New Filters on Watchlist out of beta

Collaboration team is announcing plans to graduate the New Filters for Edit Review out of beta on Watchlist by late June or early July. After launch, this suite of improved edit-search tools will be standard on all wikis. Individuals who prefer the existing Watchlist interface will be able to opt out by means of a new preference.

Over 70,000 people have activated the New Filters beta, which has been in testing on Watchlist for more than eight months. We feel confident that the features are stable and effective, but if you have thoughts about these tools or the beta graduation, please let us know on the project talk page. In particular, tell us if you know of a special incompatibility or other issue that makes the New Filters problematic on your wiki. We’ll examine the blocker and may delay release on your wiki until the issue can be addressed. - -Kaartic (discuss • contribs) 16:54, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Postponement of the deployment of the New Filters on Watchlist

There was a recent announcement about the plans to graduate the New Filters for Edit Review out of beta for this Wiki. It stated that the deployment would happen by late June or early July. Since that announcement, we received feedback about a performance issue related to the change which is being actively worked upon. As a consequence, the deployment is postponed until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience caused, if any.

Please let us know of any other issues or special incompatibility that you may face so that we could make sure they are solved before the feature gets deployed. Thanks, Kaartic (discuss • contribs) 15:18, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Please let us know of any other issues or special incompatibility that you may face so that we could make sure they are solved before the feature gets deployed. -- Kaartic (discuss • contribs) 20:03, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

A rendering server for exporting wikibooks to other formats is now up and running. Available output formats are Epub, Odt, LaTeX and PDF. The system is quite easy to operate and just requires an URL to the wikibook you want to export. http://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/ --Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 13:19, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

May 2017

Hi everyone, the main technology we’re using to render PDFs on Wikimedia wikis – OCG – is breaking down. The code is old, it’s difficult to maintain, and if we don’t replace it now we might suddenly find ourselves in a situation where we'd have to take it down without having planned to do so. We have some plans for the future at mw:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality. If you care about the PDF function, please head over there and tell us on the talk page if anything is missing from those plans, or if there’s something in there we shouldn’t spend our time and energy on. /Johan (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 22:20, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

December 2016

Export from Wikibooks to other formats works again. Since the rewrite of the collection system in 2014 many output options were lost. I am happy to announce that most of them are now available again in the mediawiki2latex system. You can choose the output format between PDF, Epub, Odt, HTML and LaTeX. Unfortunately operating mediawiki2latex requires something close to a computer science degree. So just drop me a line and I will upload the files you need. Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 09:14, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata is now available to manage the interwiki links and get some common data between the wikis in Lua. JackPotte (discuss • contribs) 13:08, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

June 2014

There is a website on the WikiMedia Foundation Labs that lets you create PDF Versions of Wikibooks. The PDFs are generated by xelatex which is the same technology as the one used for the print on demand versions you can buy using the wikibooks book generator, with the advantage that you can actually access the PDF document as well as the xelatex file for free instead of just the printed book for a fee. --Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 17:30, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

April 2014

A discussion about Xania's Check User nomination is taking place at Requests for permissions. Wikibooks users are invited to participate.